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This excerpt from Mathematize It! Grades 6-8 by Kimberly Morrow-Leong, Sara Delano Moore, and Linda M. Gojak explains why you should teach your students to mathematize. 

This chapter from We Reason & We Prove for ALL Mathematics, "Setting the Stage," will help students engage in mathematical activities that emphasize reasoning, justifying, and proving.

"Has this ever happened to you?

'My lecture went perfectly! I worked the sample problems. I could tell the students really understood the material.' 

The next day: 'I don’t know what went wrong! I thought all my students understood what I went over yesterday...' "

Read more from Frederick Dillon, author of Your Mathematics Standards Companion, High School, and The Common Core Mathematics Companion: The Standards Decoded, High School, on Corwin Connect.

Using this lesson from The Common Core Mathematics Companion, 6-8, students analyze proportional relationships and use them to solve real-world and mathematical problems (Secondary).

This checklist from Teaching Mathematics in the Visible Learning Classroom, Grades K-2, provides instruction on how to compose mathematics tests that truly assess mastery. 

This free resource from Strengths-Based Teaching and Learning in Mathematics gives teachers a sample letter for informing parents of their new aproach to teaching mathematics. 

This Peer-Assisted Reflection (PAR) activity from Teaching Mathematics in the Visible Learning Classroom, Grades 3-5, helps you develop strategies for process feedback, which is critical as learners explore the why and the how of specific mathematics content.

This excerpt from Strengths-Based Teaching and Learning in Mathematics outlines effective mathematics teaching principals and how to utilize strengths-based instruction.

This excerpt from High School Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice gives teachers a chart of instructional strategies for teaching mathematics for social justice.

Learn from Linda Gojak and Ruth Harbin-Miles, authors of The Common Core Mathematics Companion: The Standards Decoded, Grades 3-5, the impactful models and applications that lead students to a better and deeper understanding of division. 

Use this lesson from Uncovering Student Thinking About Mathematics in the Common Core, Grades K-2, to probe student understanding of addition and subtraction.

Students extend their understanding of place value by bundling tens with this lesson from The Common Core Mathematics Companion, K-2. (Elementary)